Day 16 - Puckins for sale!

Thursday, 16 October 2014

Hi and welcome to everyone from the 31 Days of Halloween blog hop! If you want to see more of the awesomeness that this blog hop has to offer, the you can find the blog roll on the left in my sidebar.I can't believe it's the half-way mark in our Halloween journey, I thank each and every person that visits and leaves the most beautiful comments for me. I read them in the morning, and it really starts my day off in the most positive way.Today I have 2 projects, the first is an altered book that I turned into a Jack-o-Lantern. I've never done one of these before, but have seen them and wanted to give it a go. I bought the instructions from Crafty Hana on Etsy and then set about folding 400+ pages. I used an old book and love that it has an orange hue to it, which is perfect for the pumpkin!The second project was a bookmark, cause all good books need a bookmark! I used an image from Mo's Digital Pencil and coloured it brightly in Copics.

I doodled a border around the edge and then distressed it. I added it to a tag shaped piece of Bazzill that I made, then layered some patterned papers, a feather, bling, a black cat and some skull brads.I titled the image Puckins 4 Sale after a story my dad told me once - when he was little, his parents went to town for the morning and he gathered up all the pumpkins and set up a stall out the front of his house to sell them! When his parents arrived home, they saw the stall and the sign that my dad had written and it said "Puckins 4 Sale". I also love this image cause it reminds me of my youngest daughter's first Halloween - she was dressed as a pumpkin

So many loves....! Love the story..ahhh sweet! And of course your little pukin...precious! And the bookmark is such eye candy with the delicious colors and layers! And if you have followed any of my projects you will know that I love, love books..old, new, nearly destroyed books, etc.! I have folded books in altering them but never taken the plunge to sculpt one as you did and the orange hue is spectacular as well as the 400 + folded amazing pages!! Awesomer than Awesome...either bad spelling or poor grammar:) !!

Book folding turned out wonderful! Can so see the shapes. TY for the link to the tute. Ahhh, what a cute card and goes perfect w/ that cute little punkin. Gorgeous coloring on image and love that kitty.

Your bookmark is so bright and cute! I have to search out some fun skull brads.LOVE your folded pumpkin book - and that you used the natural orange of the pages.I remember many (many many) years ago folding trees out of Reader's Digests.

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I've loved crafting since the day I picked up a pair of safety scissors and cropped a square in my fringe. I was 2. Now I prefer to cut paper and cardboard and procraftinate with hot glue and Stickles instead of study my Bach of Early Ed! Thanks for joining me on my adventure!

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